POEM OF THE WEEK: How I Begin

BY HARRY WAITZMAN My tongue is tied to my brain through the back door. I stoop and news pours through my nose and ears and is lost. Poetry is not news yet deals with rumors of the heart, I must learn to rage and spout through a whale-wide mouth. I must ignore the givens and […]

Richard Quinn directs Maxwell Anderson’s original Key Largo at the Nyack Village Theatre

The famous “Key Largo,” an original play written by James Maxwell Anderson, who was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist, will be featured this week at Nyack Village Theatre in Nyack. Anderson lived on South Mountain Road, in Rockland County. He is most well known for “Key Largo,” his 1939 Broadway play that […]

Thiells Church Music Director Ricky Romano Gets Role in off Broadway Musical “Towards The Moon”

Thiells Church Music Director Ricky Romano Gets Role in off Broadway Musical “Towards The Moon”

Ricky Romano of Stony Point has been playing roles and directing several Hudson Valley shows, including starring as Sam in the Off-Broadway show “Towards the Moon” opening November 19 at the 59E59 Theatres, 59th Street in New York City. Sam is the buddy of Bobby in the production. Bobby is a frustrated, dreamer type fed […]

What’s Happening 11/7/13

BY GEORGE J. DACRE “Inlaws, Outlaws and Other People that Should be Shot,” a new comedy that proves you can pick your friends but you are stuck with your family. Produced by The North Rockland High School Players at North Rockland High School Friday, Saturday, November 8 & 9 and 15 and 16 all at […]

WHAT’S HAPPENING 10/31/13

BY GEORGE J. DACRE – Douglas and Telisha Williams will headline the next concert of the Borderline Folk Music Club in New City appearing Sunday, November 17 at 2 p.m. at Steve Shapiro’s living room, 7 Trailside Court, New City. The Williams feature pre-70s country, mountain and honky-tonk with Telisha’s singing compared to Patsy Cline […]